A Study On City Human Settlement In Pearl River Delta

After entering 21c, with the fast developing of Pearl River Delta region economy, Pearl River Delta city human settlements faces unprecedented developing opportunity . But the increasing of population following economy development gives huge challenge to improve Pearl River Delta city human settlements . Opportunity and challenge are compossible.which requires a high level for Pearl River Delta city human settlements .Basing on this background ,this paper does an empirical research about evolvement and character of Pearl River Delta city human settlements.On the basis of colligating both here and abroad city human settlement theory and assessment method , combining with the actual developing character of Pearl River Delta cities ,the paper divides city human settlements system into four first-order subsystems: humanistic environment ,economic environment ,services environment and ecological environment ,and gives nine second order such as population environment .This paper constructs the Pearl River Delta city human settlements comparatively effective system of city human which is composed of four first-order indexes ,nine second-order indexes and thirty-six Basic indexes basing on urban human settlements systems analysis and utilizing analytic hierarchy process (AHP) .Then this paper chooses three episodes of 1997,2000,and 2002 to evaluate Pearl River Delta urban human settlements.On the basis of the evaluation, this paper analyzes quality and Structure Characteristic, coefficient of variation correlation and harmonizing index of Pearl River Delta urban human settlements .The analysis indicates that Pearl River Delta urban human settlements has a obvious character of middle stage of industrialization; the whole quality of urban human settlements is constantly improving ,but the intramural harmony is bad, in all factors the environment of economy is improving fastest with the following improving of service environment and the improvement of economical environment is slowest,the city pollution is even gradually deteriorating .The city soft circumstance construction with the core which is composed of the government level of control and innovation capability ofscience and technology is the key factor which propels the improving of Pearl River Delta city human settlements . At the same time , Pearl River Delta city human settlements also faces the challenge following the integration of industries of region, the difference disparity gap of city human settlements quality is gradually big in different cities .These all reflect that the research and level of control of Pearl River Delta city government need to be strengthened.At last this paper gives several relevant proposal to the construction of further city human settlements of Pearl River Delta city : Strengthen the research of city human settlements and soft circumstance construction, reinforce governing city pollution and urban garden ,construct eco-cities ,go along the way of Sustainable development.